Mr. Famous owned a firm operating a fleet of eighteen taxis engaged in the transportation of passengers in and across the state of Madhya Pradesh.…

Mr. Famous owned a firm operating a fleet of eighteen taxis engaged in the transportation of passengers in and across the state of Madhya Pradesh. The business had started way back in 1986 wherein the vehicle permits were obtained and the business was being run successfully. The registration for the vehicle expired in the year 1988 and the firm applied for renewal of registration of the vehicles under section 58 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939. The application under the aforesaid Act was still pending when such Act was replaced by the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. To get the application processed, Mr. Famous applied to the authorities to consider the application under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 taking plea of section 6(c) of the General Clauses Act, 1897. The application was not entertained by the authorities on the pretext that since the application was filed under the repealed law, the old application would not be considered and that the application should have been filed within time. Later, Mr. Famous died leading to the closure of business. The family of Mr. Famous still lives in one of the flat bought by Mr. Famous during his life-time from Mr. Rich, a builder and contractor dealing in construction and selling of flats. Mr. Rich was the owner of six flats in the city of Indore. He was advised by one of his finance consultants to rent his unoccupied flats and thereby earn handsome passive income in form of monthly rents. The advice was given to him in the year 2017 and he has been renting out the properties since then. Deebee Motors Ltd., an automobile dealer opened his office in one of the flats for commercial purposes in the year 2019 for a rent of 3.15 Lakh per month. Initially the rental dues were timely paid by the dealer but later the automobile dealer defaulted in paying the above resulting in cumulative arrears of rent being - 1.20 crore as on latest date. Mr. Rich, filed a suit for recovery of rental arrears on immovable property pleading the court to treat such arrears as benefit out of land as defined in under section 3(26) of the General Clauses Act, 1897, under the head of